Joe Collins and Sarah Callister were selected as the 2010-11 WSU Athletes of the Year.

OGDEN, Utah - The Weber State
University Athletic Department recently held its annual year-end Athletic
Awards Banquet to honor the teams and individual athletic accomplishments
during the past year. Highlighting the
banquet was the presentation of the Female and Male Athlete of the Year Awards
and the Female and Male Career Achievement Awards.

In conjunction with the Crystal
Crest Awards for the WSU campus, football senior Joe Collins was selected as
the 2010-11 Male Athlete of the Year, and sophomore Sarah Callister (track and
field and cross country) was named the Female Athlete of the Year.

Collins, a native of Seaside,
California, was a unanimous selection to the Big Sky All-Conference
First Team, one of seven players in the league to be a unanimous selection last
season. He earned Third Team All-American
honors from The Sports Network and Phil Steele.
Joe played in all 11 games for the Wildcats during the season and led
the Big Sky and was eighth in the nation in receiving yards per game at 95.1
and ranked third in the league in receptions per game at 5.5. He was also tenth in the conference in
all-purpose yards at 95.5 and recorded six touchdowns during the season. Joe finished the season with 61 receptions,
the ninth most in WSU single-season history and had 1,046 receiving yards, the
12th most in WSU single-season history.

Ogden
native Sarah Callister won two events and was named Big Sky Athlete of the Meet
at the 2010 Big Sky Outdoor Track and Field Championships, held at Weber State. She took first place in the 5,000 meters and
also took first place in the 10,000 meters.
During the season she set a new WSU freshman record in the 10,000 meters
during the season with a time of 34:33.37 and recorded the fifth best time in
school history in the 5,000 meters. In
Cross Country she was WSU's top runner in all four meets throughout the season,
before getting hurt just before the conference championships. She was named Big Sky Runner of the Week three
times during the year. So far in the
2011 outdoor track season Sarah has qualified for conference in the 5,000
meters and 10,000 meters. She posted the
third best time in school history in the 10,000 meters and currently leads the
Big Sky in the event.

In
addition to the Athletes of the Year, Weber State honored two seniors who
finished their careers and were awarded with the Career Achievement Award. Cameron Higgins (football) was the male recipient
and Caitlin Anderson (women's basketball) received the female honor.

Higgins,
a native of Hawaii Kai, Hawaii, finished his career with the Wildcats as one of
the greatest players in school history. In his four years with the 'Cats he
played in 48 games, the most career games ever played by a WSU
quarterback. He started in 43 of those 48 games. He set school
records for most career passing yards (12,274), most career touchdowns passes
(98), most career total touchdowns (105), most career pass completions (935),
and career passing efficiency rating (144.5). His 98 career touchdown
passes is also the most in Big Sky Conference history. His 12,261 yards
of total offense is the third most in Big Sky history and his 105 touchdowns is
tied for the second most in the conference history.

Anderson,
a native of Reno, Nevada, played four years for the Wildcat women's basketball team
and leaves Weber State as the school's
12th best career scorer with over 1,200 career points. She also ranks ninth in school history in
career rebounds with 693. She is number
one all-time in three-point field goal percentage at 41.3 percent and is
seventh in rebounds per game. Caitlin
started 95 of her 110 career games and had 63 games in double figure scoring
and 19 career double-doubles. She earned
All-Big Sky honors three times in her career.

During
the Athletic Awards Banquet, Weber State also honored the outstanding
performances, All-Conference honors, and team MVP's for each of the 16 NCAA
sponsored sports at Weber State.